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About the Show

Type A is a series that celebrates strong personalities who are not afraid to speak their minds.

Type A pulls up its bootstraps from Calgary, Alberta, the most vibrant city in the country, where "A" stands for accountability. The hosts are consultant and political strategist, Rod Love, and TV producer and columnist, Karin Klassen.

Their starting point is this: if you take care of the economy - everything else will take care of itself. Over 10 episodes, the series will dig at the underpinnings that are crucial to a prosperous Canada. From education reform, to how to build a better corporation, Type A gets to it through the bottom line.

About the hosts

Rod Love

Rod Love brings over 30 years of experience as a consultant,
entrepreneur, and chief of staff in all three levels of
government.

At 26 years old he was given the keys to the fastest growing city
in North America - Calgary - when he became executive assistant to then
Mayor Ralph Klein. When Klein became Alberta's premier in 1992, Love
was chief of staff. In this role, Love was involved in all aspects of
the restructuring and refocusing of the Government of Alberta. That led
to the elimination of the deficit, a rapid debt reduction, and the
lowest personal and corporate income taxes in the country.

Love graduated from the Banff School of Advanced Management. He
also studied history, politics and society at Exeter College in Oxford,
England.

But after 20 years in government, Rod found himself bored, and
broke. So he decided to start his own business, a consulting firm
specializing in political analysis, issues management and strategic
communications planning.As part of his consulting work, Rod is registered as a lobbyist with the
Office Of The Ethics Commissioner of Alberta. He's been a consultant for nearly 25 years and
now, always ready for a challenge, Rod braves a new world again -
radio.

Love lives in Calgary with his wife Charlene. They have three children.

Karin Klassen

Karin Klassen is a writer, producer, entrepreneur and mother, with over two decades of experience in broadcast media. Her company, Skippingstone Productions Inc., provides
boutique writing and production services for corporate clients. She
also writes a bi-weekly column for the Calgary Herald.

Klassen
spent more than 10 years as a writer/producer at CBC Newsworld.
Programs she helped create include TALK TV, Ballot Vox, and Time
Frame (open-line talk shows); she also worked on several news and
current affairs programs such as Early Edition, International Hour, Canada Live, Coast to Coast and Cover Story. A program she
produced, How Should the Media Cover School Shootings, won the Bronze
World Medal at the New York Television Festival. Klassen produced 200
episodes of Living Calgary, which aired daily on CBC Television, and for
which she produced close to a thousand stories about her favourite city
and home town.

Klassen also wrote and produced an award-winning
gardening program for HGTV called Bugs and Blooms and, as a founding
partner in Joe: Media Group, she co-created, wrote and produced Fixing
Dinner for FOOD TV (Canada). She has served as director of
communications for The Calgary International Film Festival, and Script:
The Writers Group. Karin has degrees in English and sociology from
the University of Calgary and is a graduate of The Banff Centre's
Executive Leadership Program. She lives in Calgary with her two lively,
handsome teenage boys.